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mention COOKIES, removed added entries, corrected the FPL-SSL link/reference

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Daniel Stenberg 2003-06-26 11:38:53 +00:00
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know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a know what cookies that are received. Pushing interface that calls a
callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about callback on each received cookie? Querying interface that asks about
existing cookies? We probably need both. Enable applications to modify existing cookies? We probably need both. Enable applications to modify
existing cookies as well. existing cookies as well. http://curl.haxx.se/dev/COOKIES
* Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system. * Make content encoding/decoding internally be made using a filter system.
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requested. That is, the download should not even begin but be aborted requested. That is, the download should not even begin but be aborted
immediately. immediately.
* Allow the http_proxy (and other) environment variables to contain user and
password as well in the style: http://proxyuser:proxypasswd@proxy:port
Berend Reitsma suggested.
LIBCURL - multi interface LIBCURL - multi interface
* Make sure we don't ever loop because of non-blocking sockets return * Make sure we don't ever loop because of non-blocking sockets return
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* Since USERPWD always override the user and password specified in URLs, we * Since USERPWD always override the user and password specified in URLs, we
might need another way to specify user+password for anonymous ftp logins. might need another way to specify user+password for anonymous ftp logins.
* An option to only download remote FTP files if they're newer than the local
one is a good idea, and it would fit right into the same syntax as the
already working http dito works (-z). It of course requires that 'MDTM'
works, and it isn't a standard FTP command.
* Add FTPS support with SSL for the data connection too. This should be made * Add FTPS support with SSL for the data connection too. This should be made
according to the specs written in draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-08.txt, according to the specs written in draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-11.txt,
"Securing FTP with TLS" "Securing FTP with TLS", valid until September 27th 2003.
http://curl.haxx.se/rfc/draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-11.txt
* --disable-epsv exists, but for active connections we have no --disable-eprt
(or even --disable-lprt).
HTTP HTTP
* If the "body" of the POST is < MSS it really aught to be sent along with * Digest, NTLM and GSS-Negotiate support for HTTP proxies. They all work
the headers. More generally, if the last chunk of the POST body is < MSS, on direct-connections to the server.
it should be sent with the previous chunk (which may be the POST headers).
So long as any one send is larger than MSS (or there is only one send when
< MSS :), the Nagle Algorithm will not be a problem on any stack where
Nagle is implemented correctly. (pointed out by Rick Jones)
* Authentication: NTLM. Support for that MS crap called NTLM
authentication. MS proxies and servers sometime require that. Since that
protocol is a proprietary one, it involves reverse engineering and network
sniffing. This should however be a library-based functionality. There are a
few different efforts "out there" to make open source HTTP clients support
this and it should be possible to take advantage of other people's hard
work. http://modntlm.sourceforge.net/ is one. There's a web page at
http://www.innovation.ch/java/ntlm.html that contains detailed reverse-
engineered info.
* RFC2617 compliance, "Digest Access Authentication" A valid test page seem
to exist at: http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/testpage/digest/ And some friendly
person's server source code is available at
http://hopf.math.nwu.edu/digestauth/index.html Then there's the Apache
mod_digest source code too of course. It seems as if Netscape doesn't
support this, and not many servers do. Although this is a lot better
authentication method than the more common "Basic". Basic sends the
password in cleartext over the network, this "Digest" method uses a
challange-response protocol which increases security quite a lot.
* Pipelining. Sending multiple requests before the previous one(s) are done. * Pipelining. Sending multiple requests before the previous one(s) are done.
This could possibly be implemented using the multi interface to queue This could possibly be implemented using the multi interface to queue